Svarūpa Dāmodara: What is the condition of the soul, innumerable souls within the body? Like the cells. All are living cells. These all contain individual soul.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: So what these individual souls are doing to support the bigger soul?
Prabhupāda: No, they are living individually. Just like there are many germs in your stool. Because the stool is there, they are living. That is their perfect condition of living. That's all. But that germs has nothing to do with this individual soul, Mr. John. Just like I am living, you are living, but we are all independent different souls. They are living in their own condition, you are living in your own condition. But when you go to your office to work, you find so many others are also working. But that does not mean they are dependent on your working or you are dependent on their work. But the condition is like that.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: But it looks like I am the proprietor of these souls.
Prabhupāda: No, no. You are not proprietor. Nobody is proprietor. You are put into that condition by God. Real proprietor is God. You are simply placed in that condition, that's all. That is your dependence on the condition offered by God.
Svarūpa Dāmodara: But just like in a office, the boss is working and there are different clerks, there are secretaries helping him.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Therefore the boss is the chief man who is giving work, "You do like this. You work like this. You work like this. You work like this."
Svarūpa Dāmodara: So I am the boss.
Prabhupāda: No, you are not boss. You are also one of the worker.
Yaśomatīnandana: You are main worker.
Prajāpati: Are you telling how the stomach to digest and how the hair to grow and how the . . .
Prabhupāda: No, you are not . . .
Svarūpa Dāmodara: No, I am talking about the relationship between my, so many individual souls, the cells, and my spirit soul.
Prabhupāda: Relationship . . . wherever you go, there is some relationship. That is . . . that inter-relationship is already there. I am walking on this sand, so I have got some relationship. If the sand would have been soft, I could not walk. So the relationship is there already, intermingled. But what is the central relationship? That is wanted, to know. That is God.